. Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews : preliminary contributions in geology, palaeontology, and zoology. Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930); Scientific expeditions; Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Natural history. AMERILAN MUSEUM NOVITATES [No. 208 Teilhardia pretiosa, new genus and species Typk.—No. 2()29'.t, lower jaw, 1)8-1113 fnuii "lower red betU" at of Shara Murun formation, I'lu I'.sii, Mongolia. Char.\cters.—Dentition, three lower |)rcmolars, three molars, the .seeond pre-
. Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews : preliminary contributions in geology, palaeontology, and zoology. Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930); Scientific expeditions; Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Natural history. AMERILAN MUSEUM NOVITATES [No. 208 Teilhardia pretiosa, new genus and species Typk.—No. 2()29'.t, lower jaw, 1)8-1113 fnuii "lower red betU" at of Shara Murun formation, I'lu I'.sii, Mongolia. Char.\cters.—Dentition, three lower |)rcmolars, three molars, the .seeond pre- molar nuK'h reduced hut still two-rooted, pj and p« )ly reduced, but .suhmolariform. Molars slightly increasing from first to third, no heel on m*, cross crests rhinocerotoid much as in C';ftinloph)is. Posterior crests of jij and p4 low and. Fig. 5. Teilhardia prelioxa. Lower jaw, external and crown views, natural size. Tyi)e specimen, Xo. 20290. imperfect, molar crests complete and rather strongly oblique, without any strong development of the internal pillars, and the external connecting crests in front of the transverse crests developed as in primitive rhinc»ceroses generally Length of premolar-molar dentition 55; of true molars 35 mm. Affinities.—This apparently is a liyracodont and suggestive of an ancestial type for Ardynin. C'()KKi;L.\ri()N 01 iiii-; . iaixa It is by no means certain that the red beds at the base of the Shara Murun and those at the of the Irdin Manha are really of the same age; nor in fact does the faunal evidence agree especially with that pro- visional correlation. Schlosscria, althoiigii tridactyl, is remarkably primitive in denti- tion, iiitcnncdiatc betwiM-n the Middlr- Kocono ffrlaktrs and the Lower. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original wor
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